OrthoAnalyika Show: 04 July 2010 Freedom! [The history of it in our community. Ukrainian freedom (especially the Cossacks). American freedom (the minutemen, the founders).] Cossacks and the Minutemen were willing to work and even fight to defend their freedom from political tyranny. But there is an even more important kind of freedom than this that […]
ON THE FIRST SUNDAY of the Great Fast our Church celebrates the triumph of Orthodoxy, the victory of true Christian teaching over all perversions and distortions thereof—heresies and false teachings. On the second Sunday of the Great Fast it is as though this triumph of Orthodoxy is repeated and deepened in connection with the celebration of the memory of one of the greatest pillars of Orthodoxy, the hierarch Gregory Palamas, Archbishop of Thessalonica, who by his grace-bearing eloquence and the example of his highly ascetic private life put to shame the teachers of falsehood who dared reject the very essence of.Orthodoxy, the podvig of prayer and fasting, which enlightens the human mind with the light of grace and makes it a communicant of the divine glory.
Censing During Ukrainian Orthodox Funerals
June 15, 2010 By
Note: be sure to subscribe to the podcast Censing during Ukrainian Orthodox Funeral Services Preface: During the funeral, the priest stands with the deacon at the west end of the coffin, except during the incensations (at the Evloghitaria of the Departed, the Kondak, and at Eternal Memory, see below). It is proper to have […]
Funeral Homily-Unity in Christ
June 5, 2010 By
Note: be sure to subscribe to the podcast If there is one common theme that runs through the Good News of Christianity, it is Unity. [E.g. The Unity of Mankind; the Unity of God; the Unity of the Soul and Body.] The Psalmist declares (Ps 133:1) “Behold, how good and pleasant it is for brethren […]
The Time in Between and the Theology of Ghosts
May 16, 2010 By
OrthoAnalyika Show: 16 May 2010 Note: be sure to subscribe to the podcast In between time. This summarizes so much for us. We seem to be living in the time between one thing and another. • Fr. Dn. Ivan. Time between graduation and ordination. The time between being put on the path towards the priesthood […]
Mothers Day and the Suffering of Innocents
May 9, 2010 By
OrthoAnalyika Show: 9 May 2010 Note: be sure to subscribe to the podcast Happy Mother’s Day! Thanks to all of our mothers – not just those with children of their own, but all the ladies who take the time to love the many children of the world and of this parish family. We need you […]
A Paralytic, the Woman at the Well, and More on an Orthodox Political Economy
May 2, 2010 By
OrthoAnalyika Show: 2 May 2010 Note: be sure to subscribe to the podcast Homily on the Paralytic: Acts 9: 32 – 42; St. John 5 : 1 – 15 Introduction: Healing, not ReligionOur readings today give examples of Christ’s ministry to mankind (in the healing of the paralytic), and how this ministry has continued through […]
Myrrhbearers, Love, Gay Marriage, Death, and Taxes
April 22, 2010 By
OrthoAnalyika Show: 18 April 2010 Note: be sure to subscribe to the podcast St. Mark 15:43-16:8 What the Myrrhbearers Teach Us about Love Introduction: today’s “Feast of Association”Today we celebrate a “Feast of Association”; a “Feast of Association” is that time when we celebrate those who were associated with a certain great Feast. In this […]
Pilgimages, Pascha, and an Orthodox Political Economy
March 22, 2010 By
OrthoAnalyika Shownotes: 21 March 2010 Note: be sure to subscribe to the podcast An Exhortation to Prepare for Pascha The Prologue of The Canterbury Tales, by Goefrey Chaucer Whan that Aprill, with his shoures sooteThe droghte of March hath perced to the roote And bathed every veyne in swich licour, Of which vertu engendred is […]
Logosmoi, Ladders, and the Ascetic Struggle
March 15, 2010 By
OrthoAnalyika Shownotes: 14 March 2010 Note: be sure to subscribe to the podcast Homily on the Sunday of St. John of the Ladder Do you want joy? Do you want peace? Do you want an end to anxiety? An end to despair? An end to boredom and loneliness? Introduction: The need to get serious You […]
A Defense of Orthodox Mysticism
March 2, 2010 By
OrthoAnalyika Shownotes: 28 February 2010 Note: be sure to subscribe to the podcast Saint Gregory Palamas – a witness we need Orthodoxy is real. Spiritual warfare is real. By this, I mean that the God who made this world and everything in it really has created a mystical path that can lead all of us […]
